It’s not voter fraud. Secretary of State Kyle Ardoin, who was reelected, oversees elections and is outspoken against fraudulent practices. It’s Republican voters too preoccupied to cast early votes or to show up on election day.
Are you serious? I've read this in a few other posts here. Louisiana GOP voters just didn't bother to come out and vote, or cast early votes??
Also, did today's LSU away game have anything to do with the voter apathy?
Thank you. Too often, I see our side jumping on voter fraud to excuse election losses. I'm not saying it NEVER happens, but we also need to face facts to learn from election losses.
Edwards was not a typical Democrat. He recently signed one of the strongest pro-life measures in the nation, and from what I understand, he's a 2A supporter. The typical "Don't vote for the liberal!" campaign was never going to work against him, at least not as much as it would have against a usual democrat.
Did that make him a lock? Of course not. I think the more rational explanation is that the two Republicans went at each other tooth-and-nail in the jungle primary in a fight to be the run-off alternative to Edwards; that's understandable. But then there wasn't enough time for Rispone to heal wounds with Abraham's supporters and consolidate the vote.
The President did everything he could to rectify that, but there just wasn't enough time. One of the lessons learned is that in a typical primary race, there is time to patch things up and get everyone on board. These jungle primaries usually don't have a lot of time before the general.
I'm not for the idea of a back-room establishment picking our candidate for us, but we also have to recognize that two Republicans clobbering each other is a losing strategy in some races.